Rock Island daily Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1886-1893, 1887-10-04
A PIONEER GHOST.

re.sio,e an aarI, a rinp;.er-Sut,ar camp 4
considerable Lit Of the primitive wood had
been nrasarCai mite ..n,,I.h To hid. the hoil
ing rror,,s Tho t.,tI.as ,,ar. HING hv heecb
t,,',,,,eIs -, ,,,-,,,l,- tt,ara ware the atora
trough fine san yoke and buckets, the small,
rather TOO naaf ,.ahi, Rirbt about head
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j., III, ,,,.;,,,;.i,.,, 80,
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San, hr,ob, A.. s,,,Ii,.,ri,,e fine vane of tho
smear SEASON a,,t I'M, I,n'liips. of the veaI,-
had baa, an .I,.,t Gin. ,t ,g,y. conid ,vrr he
II ,,,as ,,as+ th,,,,,l. ,.,ar. Eopa AMI ,,;c.ht
,se n,aIi,T- it,. a,.,., Il 80, and faIt in Inc
anc;ant wood h,Iniup the cherished Illusions
-tba ve.,.s tu,nad hal tha crau.l forest
restorad the silgrt ,-..u,, in the deana,iurr
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,,ol,,ls M. III. ,cl,..,.,... +, LaI haar
t,r.ot A. A., ,,,l.rl. ca, TO-. rI,o la,r
1,,rl ~, - I'LL G,tio haaIJ,,
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the aar,iar f,o,rar. ,r the s,,rino he.,an IN
sboy, tb.r,sa,,-o.. ,t,. li,-,,,,,i,s bIooI ro,ts
,bs ~, ,,,.,,,,i ,,,, and ,o,,,,- h,,a,d
s,,,;r,r- hoa-.,,, H., f.,,,,,,od -, g.,
,.aol iaaI-s .t,l,hHi w., ,rhara IA No., =
b,tto,-,1,- -, tI.,,.Ii.- arpo,,,- the ,,.sas
iishtins on the sap si"'utS' and many honey
oe''S, ROBINS ana tiie hifas were there, chick
adeee' hiue jays ana Tie nut hatch-wlnter
residents these last all these had been noted
talked over and the g,fis were gone. Ann,
her Younger, sister Helen and one of the Dams
vont III XII fo,. H., NH FiI".,t-
went Win biVifa Iof Tue night Elderly
AL called such for the time
The boys, Roosevelt, Monroe, another Dan,
Capt John, of the hundred lay company,
William and Theo-these last came down from
Michigan; stood rather pensively about the
rude furnace and boiling copper kettles, con-
Verslng IN subdued voices, m the perceptible
twilight, under the primitive trees. The fire
was growing conspicuous, and its sparks
visible. A colony of frogs from the swale be-
low were making themselves heard, among
which were the piercing notes of few by
iodes, which usually precede the croakers
we shant make any more good sugar, said
Monroe, In his chest tones.
These are the first of them, said Dan
They Will he frozen up three times No
good sugar after the second is the old rule.
Then followed some discussion of the rela
tions of frogs to the conditions favorable to
sugar making. The conclusion was that they
only Indicated The advance OF the season
There was an Old time incident of Tia
nelghborhcod, which, though now forgotten
occurred since the johnson boys went to
michigan, and winch Il had promised to tell
them OF after the girls left, aud they now
claimed a performance
you know ! can't tell story, and this is
not story and has no come out Of any sort
was his hesitating preliminary. He was no
great talEer at the best That is the rule
now, said Dan, who remained "A man be-
gins anywhere lii the current Of everyday
lie, takes a commonplace person or two and
sticks to them for year 50, tells usually
what they dout do and the reason or no rea-
son why, and drops them. As yours Is all
about ghost
"A ghost that Is not a ghost put in the
narrator,
who haunted an old barn, thirty bv
forty
"Or didn't, interiected Monroe.
"Or didn't, accepted Dan, lit will run IN
the line of the present school exactly
There was a pause OF mCmeEt, when
Roswell, bis back to the fire, threw MS mead
up suddenly sIie1ayS-a way of hls-and
began:
III was about tins TINE OF year, and just
such spell ut weather As this Anscomh had
acted little qne-'riy all "inter-longer- 1t
o0iihe oii - Si''"iH1 WIN 'n II steady down
: fdue, t'al lhose VINO ri" iitih every day, as
We did' harHiy observed 1t 1t was queer.
ne was an ui''is"aiiS hiteiiigeht man lie
"aS III ish' III the il'hiiilii5' a''d gre" duli,
il'''o Si'"il i"'hdlS- toward night, ana
WISH. Ihuth Setli amer uafk- "heh he had a
way Vi iiiisei ii's a''u' Tue i'"er Darn, where
.is 80 apd yo"i'e 'ui'i5 we're kept be
IN e'''N = - ,''7''' nd'' theiIi All Wen
VI oAe e'ei ''" h'l''' am steer down 10
'ne o. Aie" ita NAM a.'' "hrh the sta
D i iooI "P-i'ti 'lt "'i iIle'i III Ike
oli,@H5 =. ~ '',, I PIC hai way
= -, "'''' VI, "ii 10 the
D'e Dea'l, "a '''l 'l''",I '''''''el known Dy
ena' 'l'- ,i, INC Nv ''''" 'Fe thtir hetid''
ono I''i, -, mann, ana ne re-
.iiaii'eh U. ne, '''i'''S 20 lhen long
, u''.ii .dihe ana called
nm III ~ suppl II Jon happened
III 'i''''' VA were sure 10
iisai INN II o''' ii@ 'aiill- out 10 them
Ill HIS lecuiiar VOICE, / i"aiid nm There once
or Twice rye AWAY hfeH sorry ldid-sittlng
up there doubled over ty a purlne post, his
mead canted d""h on one side wearing the
NIUE ''ri iias "'7h' '' ,u'1" iiat-he Wore
III '''''' "i,''ei a"'"' '"' nath. was sorrS
because IL htlleu 'ut Lr 7liiiS "i the apparl-
tloh later. well "iI' hi7h'-ihe night he did
ho' ''ii'e Ill ."tF"' was rei'd, ana one oi
ene s'ii''iiei s'' 10 was 7' 10 can MIN IL was
80. 'u5 i'''"y a'"' JUS s'o"i my
tbo ha,,, ~, -, tho a,,,', H.
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